The flat, naturally occurring Midwestern accent is the newscaster accent. The Mid-Atlantic accent is an artificial accent, taught in richy-rich boarding schools.

+1 for looks good, wear it!

He’s the top Chris in my book.

Yaaaaas.  +Irish accent, for the win!

She is the Jill Stein for a new generation.

And they endanger not only their own children, but all of the responsible people who DO vaccinate. Selfish, self-important stupidity knows no bounds.  I would be furious if I found out that my hypothetical kid was exposed to a non-vaccinated kid because of these idiots.

Wow. Trent probably stays up at night wondering about the path not taken...as a teeny-bopper pop star.  

But nearly a 100% predictor of jackwagondom.

Too true - my first thought would be to refer them to the health clinic to get that looked at, then run for the hills.

Dudes who watch a lot of mainstream porn also think that we want ‘roided out dudes with crazy tans and too much hair gel and 15 inchers. Men’s ideas about what women find attractive are really, really strange.

That IS a possible upside to the whole phenomenon. Like a backwards Kangol, or white-guy dreadlocks, or pastel shorts with tiny sea creatures embroidered on them - this will be a ‘steer-clear-of-this-douche-canoe’ signal. In the future, when we all have Google glasses, we could train our glasses chip to facially…

I’ll go one further - I don’t really like pork-based breakfast meats except ham steak.

Whoa! Hold up - mustard is the greatest condiment. I said it. Take that, ketchup.  Mustard is the hill I will die on.  

I had a similar situation about a decade ago, except it was a man P-A bullying me. I reserved a conference room, booked a meeting with him, and told him that I had documented his bullying and I was going to HR if it didn’t stop permanently and immediately.

That happened to my mom too. A dark strawberry blonde naturally, the grays slowly made her hair more and more blonde looking. She went for the bottle and is back to her "natural" strawberry blonde.

I routinely have to attend events where the national anthem is sung for my job. We have a lot of Canadians in my area, who stand quietly during the US anthem. I’ve taken to joining them, and contemplating my deep dissatisfaction and flaming anger with this country for a few minutes with an objectively horrible song as…

There needs to be a website for “Can I Safely Watch This With My Relatives?” similar to the site that warns about death of animals in media.

I think they are pointing out that Ann Taylor, the clothing brand, isn't spelled with an ‘e’ on the end of the first word. 

Your husband and I have the same reaction to this story. 

This is new to me, and could honestly be the bittersweet ending GRRM references.  Hundreds of years of war with brief respites of peace - maybe this is the ending.